by Dean Luke | Mar 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Do you ever experience open string noise when playing power chords? One of the most important things about playing power chords is muting the strings you AREN’T playing. This is best done with your 1st finger. If you’re playing a root 6 power chord,...
by Dean Luke | Mar 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Do you want to play solos but don’t understand what scales to use and what keys to play them in?So did Nick before he started lessons with me.He was also struggling with finger co-ordination and picking.To improve his soloing ability we learned scales and how...
by Dean Luke | Mar 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
In order to understand how to achieve pinched (or artificial) harmonics, you need to understand how to achieve regular (or natural) harmonics. Natural harmonics are achieved by touching your finger to a string (touching, not fretting) above a fret that marks a...
by Dean Luke | Mar 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Want to know what one of the oldest arguments in lead guitar playing is? Is it better to solo fast? Or slow? This argument has been raging for as long as I’ve been playing lead guitar and from what I can tell, it’s been going on a lot longer than that, too. But if you...
by Dean Luke | Mar 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Let’s talk about double stops. Double stops or dyads as they’re also known, are a great way to add body and attitude to a lick. Though double stops can be played all over the place in lots of different variations – for rock and blues guitar...
by Dean Luke | Mar 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
When picking, it’s important to pick in a straight line between the pickups. If you have a guitar with a bridge and neck pickup – pretend you have an imaginary single coil pickup in the middle position and pick in line with it. If you have a guitar with...